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Statistical analyses of the resilience function
Behavior Research Methods (2016)
  • Joseph W Houpt
  • Daniel R Little, The University of Melbourne
Abstract
The extent to which distracting information influences decisions can be informative about the nature of the underlying cognitive and perceptual processes. In a recent paper, a response time-based measure for quantifying the degree of interference (or facilitation) from distracting information termed resilience was introduced. Despite using a statistical measure, the analysis was limited to qualitative comparisons between different model predictions. In this paper, we demonstrate how statistical procedures from workload capacity analysis can be applied to the new resilience functions. In particular, we present an approach to null-hypothesis testing of resilience functions and a method based on functional principal components analysis for analyzing differences in the functional form of the resilience functions across participants and conditions.
Keywords
  • Response time,
  • information processing,
  • statistics,
  • conflict
Publication Date
2016
Citation Information
Joseph W Houpt and Daniel R Little. "Statistical analyses of the resilience function" Behavior Research Methods (2016)
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/joseph_houpt/45/